1. William Monroe**                                  $2,300,000.00          6/5/13           6/30/11               Use of force (live rounds/less lethal gun)
   
2. Family of James Chasse, Jr                   $1,600,000.00          7/28/10           9/17/06               Use of force (beating led to death)
   
3. Family of Aaron Campbell                       $1,200,000.00           2/1/12         1/29/10            Shooting (died)
   
4. Family of Lane Martin*                                 $975,000.00           9/9/20         7/30/19            Shooting (died)
   
5. Protestors August 2002&May 2003              $845,000.00          12/1/04          8/22/02          Use of force (pepper spray)
   
6. Family of Damon Lowery                                 $600,000.00           9/29/14          12/5/99          Use of force (leading to death)
   
7. Jason Cox*                                              $562,129.00 (jury)        6/25/05           6/28/11          Use of force
   
8. Family of Raymond Gwerder                          $500,000.00          11/14/07          11/4/05          Shooting (died)
   
9. Barbara& Ted Vickers, Estate of Dickie Dow       $380,000.00          3/27/02          10/19/98          Wrongful death/Dickie Dow
   
10. Family of James Jahar Perez                          $350,359.00           9/3/08           3/28/04          Shooting (died)
    
11. Daniel Thomas***                                             $311,000.00    3/14/08&9/28/04    7/11/03          Use of force
    
12. Dan Halsted                                               $258,040.00 (jury)     3/14/12           6/17/08          Use of force (Taser)
    
13. Gallagher Smith*                                  $306,000 (settlement/jury)   7/24/13           11/13/10          Use of force
    
14. Bruce Browne                                                  $200,895.00          4/1/03              7/11/01          Shooting (lived)
    
15. Family of Dennis Young                              $200,000.00           10/8/08           1/4/06          Shooting (died)
    
16. Maria-Janeth Rodriguez-Sanchez                    $177,161.41    12/2/05&8/3/05     4/8/03          Use of force
    
17. Harold Hammick, Ri'Chard Booth & Alex Clay     $175,000.00 (jury)     9/23/09     3/17/07       Mistreatment (pointing guns and more)
    
18. Family of Peter Gilbaugh                                $150,000.00          10/1/02          12/31/98          Shooting (died)
    
19. Barbara Weich                                                    $150,000.00          1/2/08             5/29/05          Use of force (broken arm)
    
20. Eunice Crowder                                                  $145,000.00          4/23/04          6/9/03          Use of force (including Taser)
    
21. Chaz Miller                                                       $133,926.06         6/21/06          4/21/03          Use of Force/wrong person arrested
    
22. Ethiopia Amdino*                                        $125,000.00           5/27/20          4/19/18           Car crash during improper chase****
    
23. Daynelle & Claudius Banks**                            $120,000.00          3/18/20          3/21/15          Discrimination (race)
    
24. Gerald Gratton                                                  $118,000.00          4/4/94          7/19/93          Shooting (lived)
    
25. Daniel Collins**                                                  $110,000.00          7/30/14          12/24/10          Use of Force (Taser)
    

     Total                                               $11,992,510.47

This chart should be published regularly by the City to let people know what police misconduct is costing the people of Portland. Sure, they can argue that in cases that were settled out of court they never admitted wrongdoing, but if they felt they had a sure chance to win, they'd defend their officers. The $12 million total for just these 25 cases does not include another $3.9 million paid out to nearly 250 other people from 1993-2020. With an average of nearly $600,000 per year, the City could be paying for several civilian investigators to staff an independent police review board. Perhaps with ongoing external monitoring, the frequency of such cases would decline.

An additional $4,513,000 was paid out in two negligence cases where police inaction led to disastrous results; PCW counts these separately from the active misconduct cases.

Moreover, in 2020 we reviewed City Council records for seven years, with data showing that from 2013-2020 the City paid out at least $878,079.46 for 33 officer-related auto accidents, an average cost of $26,608 per crash.*

When we compared the average annual totals for misconduct incidents between 1993 and 2001 ($382,000) and from 2002-June 2011 ($636,000), it revealed that the advent of Portland's "Independent" Police Review (IPR) in 2002 has done little to slow the lawsuits or the misconduct that generates them, and in fact it may be that more people are turning to the courts rather than using the civilian complaint system (see People's Police Report #44, May 2008).

--Some of the amounts shown include the City's legal expenses, making them appear higher than the settlements alone. But since this expense comes back to you, the taxpayer, we feel all expenses should be included when known. For example, the case involving protestors harmed at actions in 2002 and 2003 includes attorney fees.

--To be absolutely clear, the City is self-insured through the office of Risk Management, but settlements/awards of over $1 million are paid by an external insurance company.